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Spiritualize v. t. (past & past part. spiritualized; pres. part. spiritualizing)

To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. "This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say."

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.

(Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiritualize" Quotes from Famous Books

... a mysterious way, he would confess that he once thought differently. In his idle and dreamy days he had considered it possible, in a certain sense, to spiritualize machinery, and to combine with the new species of life and motion thus produced a beauty that should attain to the ideal which Nature has proposed to herself in all her creatures, but has never ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... how near together geographically were once the Hindus and Persians. Whether one puts the place of separation at the Kabul or further to the north-west is a matter of indifference. The Persians borrow the idea of Varuna Asura, whose eye is the sun. They spiritualize this, and create an Asura unknown ...

— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

Words linked to "Spiritualize" : change, interpret, spiritualization, construe, see, purify, glorify, sanctify, purge, modify